Kristin Scott Thomas

But I wasn't able to...

get over that really for a very very long time and it needn't have been the case so it wasn't genuinely my failure I suppose but I do wish that I had I do wish that I'd been able to

at least look at it as a young girl.

And in fact, I didn't really do anything about it until I was 30.

And by then I had two children.

And having children allowed me to see where I'd gone wrong and where I was beating myself up and where I was doing unnecessary sabotage and damaging things.

just because of this enormous sadness that had never been allowed out.

Oh, definitely, definitely.

And that's what I try to put in the film.

I try and get that across with the character played by Scarlet, the eldest sister Catherine, this idea that I'm in charge and I have to make sure everyone's happy and everyone does their... And that was definitely, definitely, because there were five of us.

So I definitely felt a sort of...

Stiff upper lip.

Come on.

And I think that's why I get this sort of bossy.

I'm so good at being bossy is because I had lots of practice, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And now looking back at it as a human, I mean, not as human, children are human, but as a grown up, I think.

I see myself as somebody else's child.

You'd think, oh God, poor little thing, somebody help her.